The tournament starts with a group stage of eight teams in a round robin. Each team faces each other team twice, and at each interaction, a best-of-two set is played. Each team will receive three points for a win (2-0), one point for a tie (1-1), or zero points for a loss (0-2).

At the end of the round robin, four teams advance to the playoffs. All playoff games will be best of three, except for the finals, which will be a best of five.

? I think you might have confused him with someone else. Most people that follow the Chinese scene would unanimously agree that out of teams like WE,IG,OMG,EDG, San is the worse adc compared to the other three.

For the people saying "if they were so much better why did Royal go last year?" Here is a rather extreme example, Curse who always historically placed 4th in tournaments of the TSM, CLG, DIG and C9 era would always place 4th if those teams attended the same event. But what if Curse's spot in playoffs had to play like MRN,VES and DIG? Obviously they would place higher in the rankings compared the people in the other bracket, but once they played people at that same level or above again, they would get dumpstered on. Which was exactly what happened when they played SKT K.

If we look at the LPL scene, obviously Uzi, Namei and WX are better. Smlz from WEA is arguably better than san, and kid is better than san on his good days. That puts san in the bottom 3. In the recent OMG vs SHRC game, during laning phase Uzi had 150 cs while san had 100 without lane swaps, which definitely shows the how much better uzi is. The casters have little knowledge about the Chinese scene and can easily make biased statements.

Yeah by no means am I claiming he is top tier in China, just that he was receiving some hype, more so at All-Stars since at Worlds OMG was considered the Cool show. I also remember Uzi being hyped as best ADC World, but it seems he has fallen off a bit since losing his support and his tenure in mid.

Ah I see what you mean then, yeah he was the only Chinese ADC there and these "hype" things by casters/fans/western players tend to be very volatile. Everyone in the West thought Tabe was good/a cool guy/etc where everyone in China knew if you banned out his Annie he did jack compared to the other supports at the time, the fact that everyone quickly jumped that train was purely because he spoke English.

Hes quite inconsistent, you cant take him by how lows (and cant take him by his highs).

He's quite far from Uzi currently and namei-wx overall, but hes surely not bad, it all depends on the team and the enemies. You can see, Vasili is barely top15 chinese adcs and hes one of the best in NA, its all relative. San will probably play well at worlds because other botlanes are weaker, but will probably do bad against kr supports.

caught the second game of YG vs OMG. YG's AD just did so much more and it's crazy the amount of peel they put into protecting him. Veigar also did so much work and gave Skarner a way to catch up and get an ult allowing him to save his flash ult for different situations.

YG running Skarner twice I believe and 2-0ing OMG. The second game wasn't even close and cool's tf got hard countered by Veigar/Skarner and they were able to blow him up or suppress him before he even got his Zhonyas off.

Funny thing that YG's AD is complete shit. Hes like in Vasili level, not even top15 adcs in China... Rarely plays well. You can see him missing steps-rolls, missing the stun (dunno the skill name), ulting needlessly and many small mistakes that make him bad.

But for some reason he always loved to play vayne, fucking always, even out of the meta and even not being that good with it aswel. Today he was solid, snowballed well the early kills.

I think the peel was more for veigar than Vayne, since diangun (mid) is their main carry and Veigar has no escapes... But by the time dragon (adc) escalated they protected them both smartly.

I was talking with karonmoser, i still think Cool shouldve picked cleanse against skarner-veigar, QSS in TF is waste of money.